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Zyxomma's avatar

Ta, Erik.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Exactly the same thing occured here with asbestos, In Nthn NSW they mined the stuff with Aboriginal labour in towns that were really only there to exploit that resource. The men came home covered in dust and their wives and kids got exposed too. A fellow I worked with said there wasn't a single family that didn't have a death connected to it.

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Darth Trad's avatar

Sorry, I didn't give a reference as I have that dumb idea that everyone would know about the place. Baryulgil.

'Baryulgil was a small chrysotile asbestos mine in northeast New South Wales (near Grafton) which was worked by the Bundjalung/Banjalang people who are the indigenous people of the area'

https://www.australianasbestosnetwork.org.au/asbestos-history/asbestos-baryulgil/#:~:text=Baryulgil%20was%20a%20small%20chrysotile,with%20James%20Hardie%20from%201944.

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Notorious J.I.M.'s avatar

In 1986 a group I was with drove to Alaska on the AlCan highway. At one restaurant we stopped at, a small open container of chrysotile asbestos sat right next to the cash register. Nobody saw it til we paid and left.

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Megan Macomber's avatar

Yatah hey and fuck you, Mike Johnson.

I mean: fuck you again for this ("held in committee since March"), yet another gratuitously cruel sin of commission/omission/whatever. Your god must hate you.

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diogenez's avatar

See also: Demon Mineral, an excellent documentary:

https://www.videoproject.org/demon-mineral.html

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Birb-General of the US's avatar

Even without inhaling or ingesting uranium dust, miners received fatal exposures to radon gas, one of uranium's byproducts, as described in the BEIR IV study. Radon and its decay products constitute the largest part of background radiation that we are all exposed to. If you have a home with ground contact, get a radon test and mitigate the house if the levels are elevated.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK218124/

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Blanche de Shambles's avatar

This is still an issue in Canada. Not only are many uranium mines (both past and currently operating) on indigenous territory (most in northern Saskatchewan), but 11% of the fissile material used in the Manhattan project was mined at Port Radium, in what was then the North West Territories. This mine was so isolated, that the mined material was mainly carried out by hand over dozens of kilometers to barges and then sent to Port Hope in Ontario. The people who transported this material were almost entirely indigenous, and were never compensated for the rather horrifying health problems that resulted.

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Lil Snot's avatar

Fucking Mike Johnson.

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The Covfefes ASAP!'s avatar

Mistreatment of Native people in the Americas is par for course. If we were to deal fairly with them many of us would have to give up some privileges that we really don't want to.

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Lefty Wright's avatar

Probably 40 years ago my mother had uterine cancer years after a partial hysterectomy. They packed the remaining uterine tissue with a packet of radioactive pellets instead of surgery. She was kept in an isolation room for 24 hours before removing them.

After she got out and was ready for discharge, they farted around for over two hours waiting for discharge papers. This was 9:00 at night and freezing rain and sleet was coming down and covering the road on our 25 mile drive back to her house. I told the nurse if we did not get the discharge papers in 5 minutes we were leaving. Which we had to do. After 45 minutes of slipping and sliding we made it back to her house.

But the treatment worked, at least for many years. Later in with failing health and several hospitalization for not keeping food down, they finally did a MRI, which showed an intestinal blockage, probably cancer. But her health was so fragile surgery was not an option. So we had to watch for a week while she suffered malnutrition and dehydration before passing away. Any type of IV for fluids or feeding tube would have just prolonged her suffering. But anyway, the radioactive pellets did the job. I doubt they do it now. So medicine 18 year ago was just as brutal as 40 years ago. And even now, as I am in chemotherapy myself as palliative treatment. Which does seem to be helping but one of the treatments includes a pump I wear for 48 hours where I am supposed to avoid any close contact with anyone and double wash clothes and bedsheets in hot water two days after the pump is removed. That is to avoid anyone contacting the medication that is entering my veins from my sweat or urine. Which must be some strong shit. The nurses have to wear protective gear when hooking me up and disconnecting the pump in case of a spill or leak.

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Whale Chowder's avatar

I know things aren't looking good for you, friend. I wish you comfort and a high quality of life for as long as possible.

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SunMoonStars's avatar

What an ordeal. I hope your prognosis is a positive one and I'm sorry that you are having to endure this nightmare.

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Revenant's avatar

And so it goes...

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Joe Schmoe, Troublemaker's avatar

Lord Erik of Loomis, thank you for your continued service here. Excellent coverage of this, as always 🙇‍♂️

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Douglas Milliken's avatar

Mango Manson would say they deserved it for being losers. Disgusting country.

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theblackdog's avatar

Davante Adams must have really pissed someone off if he's being sent to the Jets.

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Elviouslyqueer's avatar

My fantasy roster laughed a little too long at this non-comment.

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Daniel's avatar

OT

https://bsky.app/profile/sethcotlar.bsky.social/post/3l6kke2rrbi2m

Chris Rufo is trying the plagiarism accusation again- this time about Kamala Harris.

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Elviouslyqueer's avatar

Rufo's repeated inveighing about gay globalist homos has "Sure Jan" written all over it.

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everett fanuelli's avatar

She didn't cite using APA

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Blanche de Shambles's avatar

Good. Chicago is a far superior method of citation.

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Demme Fatale's avatar

This post reminds me of the radioactive iodine treatment I got 2 weeks ago.

Even though it's relatively modern, why does radiation exposure seem medieval?

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(BTW: I was watching football and was astonished at David Muir's breathless approach to the election. Turn that shit off, Wonkers!)

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Satanic Pancake's avatar

I had two treatments with radioactive iodine. The one done in southern California, the techs donned lead aprons and gloves and put a lead-lined box containing a pill on a table and told me to open it and take the pill after they left the room. I wasn't supposed to fly or, ideally, poop, for 24 hours. The second treatment, same dose, done in northern California after the first dose failed to work, the techs, no safety gear whatsoever, handed me the pill and hung around in the room talking to me for 15 minutes or so, then told me to go home and do whatever I wanted. Apparently radiation is more dangerous in SoCal. Or the northerners just don't give a fuck.

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Demme Fatale's avatar

Really.

The mixed messages are very strange.

This department insisted I quarantine for three days, yet wanted a lab test on day two.

I asked about that, and they said it was safe.(?!)

I didn't think it was right, and waited to go to the lab.

WTF?!

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everett fanuelli's avatar

Was the specialist Theodoric of York?

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Demme Fatale's avatar

Lol!

Thanks for the laugh!

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